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Progress Report #21: January 2025
Monthly tally - Backlog: 29, Yekhus: 2
Total play time: 20.0h
My collection has passed the 2k bar. I really need to get on top of it. And let's face it: it won't be done by spending more time playing. What I need to do is spend some of my gaming time finding, trying and scratching off the shittiest stuff I have in there, of which there has to be plenty. Discards are my only hope.
Completed or Beaten (2)
Thank you Samwise, for The Last Campfire! It was a relatively light game, much more casual than I'm used to, so was surprised by how much I got into it. I had a headstart when I played the demo a while back. But as soon as I picked it up, really got in the flow of playing it in little gaps I had in the evenings to relax and unwind.
Same with Flower, very relaxing casual stuff, to play at the end of the day. I guess it's really what I needed in what was otherwise a busy month, juggling demanding work with a bunch of other responsibilities. That said, while a single playthrough was ok, the control scheme felt a bit too frustrating, and the very limited variety of exploration and discovery made it too repetitive. This mix would not motivate me the slightest to replay it or chase achievements.
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The Last Campfire
5.5 hours playtime
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Flower
4.9 hours playtime
Also Played (3)
Super Meat Boy Forever is driving me nuts. Granted, it's supposed to be a hardcore, challenging game. But I managed to advance through it all at a pretty a steady pace. Until I reached what I think is the last boss (although my paranoia tells me to be ready to expect otherwise), and then I got completely stuck. The sudden spike in difficulty seems like bad game design. I've tried it a bunch of times over several short sessions, and it's a really tough grind (and pretty frustrating, and boring, I'd say). My will and patience are up for it, but it feels stupid and a waste of time to keep trying with no real enjoyment. I'm very tempted to just give up on beating the thing, but it really pains me, so close to the end, so haven't pulled the trigger just yet.
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Super Meat Boy Forever
4 hours playtime
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Oaken
2.3 hours playtime
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SNK 40th Anniversary Collection
5.0 hours playtime
No achievements (not on Steam)
Added to collection (Steam) (5)
- ABI-DOS (free)
- The Last Campfire (SG giveaway)
- Mini Thief (freebie)
- Merk Mayhem (free)
- Towaga: Among Shadows (free)
Added to collection (GOG) (3)
- Vambrace: Cold Soul (freebie)
- SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech (pass)
- GRIP: Combat Racing (pass)
Added to collection (Epic) (9)
- Sifu (freebie)
- Hell Let Loose (freebie)
- Eastern Exorcist (pass)
- Skydrift Infinity (pass)
- Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader (pass)
- Star Stuff (pass)
- To The Rescue! (pass)
- Zombie Army 4: Dead War (pass)
- Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights (pass)
Added to collection (Other) (12)
- Spirit Mancer (pass)
- Land It Rocket (freebie)
- SuperTuxKart (free)
- Xonotic (free)
- OpenRA (free)
- Freedoom (free)
- Battle for Wesnoth (free)
- Widelands (free)
- Luanti (free)
- Unvanquished (free)
- Warzone 2100 (free)
- Spitlings (pass)
Progress Report #20: December 2024
Monthly tally - Backlog: 36, Yekhus: 1
Total play time: 7.5h
Here's one very lackluster monthly update to end the year. And yet it will not make me forget that the year was a fine one, and had some very fun gaming. Happy New Year 2025! May it come full of fun and fulfilling gaming time for you all!
December was another crazy busy month with barely any time to play. My new year's resolution: to try and squeeze a bit of gaming every day, even if it's just something short and sweet for half an hour. I will have to plan for it and have a queue of short games, or a small set of ongoing games that can be played well in short sprints (like my new acquisition Roboquest) when I'm in different moods.
Completed or Beaten (1)
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Armello
2.8 hours playtime
Also Played (3)
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Roboquest
1 hour playtime
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Super Meat Boy Forever
2.4 hours playtime
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Colt Canyon
1.5 hours playtime
Added to collection (Steam) (12)
- Lunacid (IG giveaway)
- Pankapu (freebie)
- Mysterious School (free)
- La-Mulana
- Teslagrad 2 (SG giveaway)
- Roboquest
- Sky is Arrows (free)
- ScourgeBringer (freebie)
- Nox Archaist
- Everspace
- Deus Ex
- Super Hexagon
Added to collection (GOG) (8)
- Space Hulk: Deathwing (pass)
- The Coma: Recut (pass)
- Planet of Lana (pass)
- Hero's Hour (pass)
- The Whispered World: Special Edition (freebie)
- Chicken Assassin: Reloaded (freebie)
- The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav (freebie)
- The Town of Light (pass)
Added to collection (Epic) (12)
- LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (freebie)
- Necromunda: Hired Gun (pass)
- Diabotical (free)
- The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria (freebie)
- Predator: Hunting Grounds (pass)
- Astrea: Six Sided Oracles (freebie)
- TerraTech (freebie)
- Dark and Darker (freebie)
- Ghostrunner 2 (freebie)
- Hot Wheels Unleashed (freebie)
- Kill Knight (freebie)
- [REDACTED] (freebie)
Added to collection (Other) (4)
- Disney•Pixar WALL-E (pass)
- ReDrawn: The Painted Tower (pass)
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II (pass)
- Simulakros (pass)
Played Demos (1)
I tried the demo, really enjoyed the game loop, and bought it, to have it as a light bit of ongoing relax to play here and there.
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Roboquest
0.5 hours playtime
No Achievements
Progress Report #19: November 2024
Monthly tally - Backlog: 23, Yekhus: 0
Total play time: 8h
Completed or Beaten (0)
A bad month for gaming. Barely had time to play at all. Not a single game beaten or completed. But in the few sessions I managed to scrounge, I did make some pretty good progress on Arx Fatalis.
Played (2)
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Arx Fatalis
22.4 hours playtime
No achievements
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Super Meat Boy Forever
92 minutes playtime
Added to collection (Steam) (7)
- Generation Zero (bundle)
- Metal:Hellsinger
- Dreamscaper (SG giveaway)
- Juice Galaxy (free)
- Cube Royale (freebie)
- Dark Sector (freebie)
- Sengoku: Battle Royal (free)
Added to collection (GOG) (8)
- Chasm: the Rift (pass)
- Blade of Darkness (pass)
- Tomb Raider: Anniversary (pass)
- Diggles: The Myth of Fenris (freebie)
- RIOT - Civil Unrest (pass)
- Moonscars (pass)
- Shogun Showdown (pass)
- Sir Whoopass: Immortal Death (pass)
Added to collection (Epic) (2)
- House of Golf 2 (pass)
- Brotato (freebie)
Added to collection (Other) (6)
- Bang Bang Racing (pass)
- Disney•Pixar Cars (pass)
- Flight Masters: The Horizon Chase (freebie)
- Ms. Holmes: The Case of the Dancing Men (pass)
- Max: The Curse of Brotherhood (pass)
- Mystery Case Files: The Dalimar Legacy (pass)
Progress Report #18: October 2024
Monthly tally - Backlog: 36, Yekhus: 4
Total play time: 24h
Completed or Beaten (3)
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How We Know We're Alive
43 minutes playtime
No achievements
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Escape Academy
5.75 hours playtime
No achievements (not on Steam)
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Darkside Detective
3.7 hours playtime
Also Played (2)
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Arx Fatalis
16.6 hours playtime
No achievements
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Borderlands 3
19.7 hours playtime
No achievements (not on Steam)
Tried and discarded (1)
Too many games, too little time. So whenever I try a game I can't be bothered to keep up, I scratch it off mercilessly. It's a win. But the rule is that I have to give it an honest try first.
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Spiritus
37 minutes playtime
Added to collection (Steam) (11)
- Graveyard Keeper (trade)
- Castle Break (freebie)
- Unplagued (freebie)
- Minimalism (freebie)
- Escape Memoirs: Mini Stories (free)
- Escape Memoirs: Questionable Side Stories (free)
- Nova Lands
- Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
- East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance (free)
- Unloved (freebie)
- Egg Raiders (free)
Added to collection (GOG) (8)
- Tomb Raider: Legend (pass)
- Hive Jump 2: Survivors (pass)
- Whispering Willows (freebie)
- The Gunk (pass)
- Pumpkin Jack (pass)
- Monster Train (pass)
- Coromon (pass)
- Return of the Phantom (freebie)
Added to collection (Epic) (10)
- Bear and Breakfast (freebie)
- No Straight Roads (pass)
- The Eternal Cylinder (pass)
- Outliver: Tribulation (freebie)
- Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Ecto Edition (pass)
- Priest Simulator: Vampire Show (pass)
- Morbid: The Seven Acolytes (pass)
- Stasis: Bone Totem (pass)
- Witch It (freebie)
- Death's Door (pass)
Added to collection (Other) (7)
- DreadOut 2 (pass)
- The Gap (pass)
- Zombies Ate My Neighbors (pass)
- Ghoul Patrol (pass)
- Gargoyles Remastered (pass)
- Christmas Night (freebie)
- Haunted Hotel: Personal Nightmare (pass)
Progress Report #17: September 2024
Monthly tally - Backlog: 37, Yekhus: 3
Total play time: 15.2h
Completed or Beaten (3)
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Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
5.5 hours playtime
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We Were Here Too
3.9 hours playtime
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Through the Woods
3.8 hours playtime
Added to collection (Steam) (14)
- Resident Evil 2
- Scorn
- We Were Here Too
- Immortality (bundle)
- Paradise Killer (bundle)
- The Darkside Detective (bundle)
- The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark (bundle)
- Killer Frequency (bundle)
- Overboard! (bundle)
- Super Stupid Game (freebie)
- Astronarch (freebie)
- Press any Button (freebie)
- Spacecom (IG giveaway)
- Go Ace It (free)
Added to collection (GOG) (8)
- Sexy Brutale
- Hell Pie (pass)
- 9 Years of Shadows (pass)
- Showgunners (pass)
- Moonlighter (pass)
- LEGO The Hobbit (pass)
- Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales (pass)
- Ghost Song (pass)
Added to collection (Epic) (7)
- Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts (freebie)
- Rurats: Adventures in Gameland (freebie)
- Super Crazy Rhythm Castle (freebie)
- Arcadegeddon (pass)
- TOEM (freebie)
- The Last Stand: Aftermath (freebie)
- The Spirit and the Mouse (freebie)
Added to collection (Other) (8)
- Townopolis (freebie)
- Golfie (pass)
- Hero of the Kingdom III (freebie)
- Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 1 (freebie)
- Romopolis (freebie)
- Megapolis (2010) (freebie)
- Ynglet (pass)
- Mystery Case Files: Black Crown (pass)
Progress Report #16: August 2024
Monthly tally - Backlog: 38, Yekhus: 5
Total play time: 34.5h
Completed or Beaten (3)
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Sword with Sauce
1.3 hours playtime
No achievements
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Guilty Gear X2 #Reload
4.3 hours playtime
2 of ? in-game achievements
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We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip
3.6 hours playtime
Also Played (2)
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Dave the Diver
8.6 hour playtime
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Super Meat Boy Forever
1 hour playtime
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Borderlands 3
15.5 hours playtime
No achievements (not on Steam)
Tried and discarded (2)
Too many games, too little time. So whenever I try a game I can't be bothered to keep up, I scratch it off mercilessly. It's a win. But the rule is that I have to give it an honest try first.
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Critical Mass
0.3 hours playtime
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Illie
0.4 hours playtime
No achievements (not Steam)
Added to collection (Steam) (16)
- Field of Glory II: Medieval (SG giveaway)
- OlliOlli World (SG giveaway)
- Dreams in the Witch House
- Doom (2016)
- Empyrion - Galactic Survival (IG giveaway)
- Resident Evil (bundle)
- Resident Evil 0 (bundle)
- Resident Evil 5 (bundle)
- Resident Evil 7 (bundle)
- Resident Evil Revelations (bundle)
- The Sumerian Game (free)
- Weapon of Choice DX (freebie)
- Distant Space (freebie)
- Creative Console (free)
- Classic Marathon Infinity (free)
- Away from Home (free)
Added to collection (GOG) (6)
- Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation + Chronicles (pass)
- Tomb Raider VI: The Angel of Darkness (pass)
- En Garde! (pass)
- Hard West 2 (pass)
- Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical (pass)
- Spells & Secrets (pass)
Added to collection (Epic) (9)
- LumbearJack (freebie)
- CYGNI: All Guns Blazing (freebie)
- DNF Duel (freebie)
- Trek to Yomi (pass)
- Death's Gambit: Afterlife (freebie)
- The Callisto Protocol (freebie)
- Gigantic: Rampage Edition (freebie)
- KeyWe (pass)
- Wild Card Football (freebie)
Added to collection (Other) (7)
- Gravity Circuit (pass)
- Kraken Academy (pass)
- Beholder 3 (pass)
- Figment 2: Creed Valley (pass)
- Young Souls (pass)
- DRL (free)
- The Collage Atlas (pass)
Played Demos (2)
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An English Haunting demo
0.5 hours playtime
No Achievements
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Angel at Dusk demo
18 minutes
No Achievements
Progress Report #15: July 2024
Monthly tally - Backlog: 34, Yekhus: 4
Total play time: 25h
Completed or Beaten (4)
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The Forgotten City
12.6 hours playtime
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Chocolate makes you happy: Halloweene
38 minutes playtime
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The WereCleaner
1.2 hours playtime
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
1 hour playtime
No Achievements
Also Played (2)
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Super Meat Boy Forever
1 hour playtime
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Borderlands 3
15.5 hours playtime
No achievements (not Steam)
Tried and discarded (1)
Too many games, too little time. So whenever I try a game I can't be bothered to keep up, I scratch it off mercilessly. It's a win. But the rule is that I have to give it an honest try first.
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Meow Express
0.2 hours playtime
Added to collection (Steam) (15)
- Jaded (free)
- Oaken (SG giveaway)
- Cakey's Twisted Bakery (freebie)
- Atan (free)
- Classic Marathon 2 (free)
- All Walls Must Fall (free)
- Intravenous (freebie)
- Nightmare Kart (free)
- Critical Mass (IG giveaway)
- Dungeonborne (free)
- WayOut (IG giveaway)
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (trade)
- DUSK (trade)
- Black Myth: Wukong (promo)
- Grow a Carrot (SG giveaway)
Added to collection (GOG) (5)
- Hitman: Absolution (pass)
- Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (pass)
- The First Templar (freebie)
- Fallout London (freebie)
- Midnight Fight Express (pass)
Added to collection (Epic) (7)
- The Falconeer (freebie)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (pass)
- Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX (pass)
- Floppy Knights (freebie)
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (pass)
- Arcade Paradise (freebie)
- Maid of Sker (freebie)
Added to collection (Other) (7)
- Wall World (pass)
- Fly Flew Flown (freebie)
- Samurai Bringer (pass)
- STAR WARS: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords (pass)
- Youtubers Life 2 (pass)
- Jumping Knight (freebie)
- Masterplan Tycoon (pass)
Progress Report #14: June 2024
Monthly tally - Backlog: 22, Yekhus: 5
Total play time: 35h
Completed or Beaten (5)
After beating it last month, spent a good while longer completing Animal Well. Completing the Steam achievements, that is. Even after that, there are clearly even more challenges and secrets in the game, which I worked on somewhat, but am far from completing, as some seem nigh impossible, or would require one or more tedious replays. So I feel fair and at peace calling it complete.
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Animal Well
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Pilgrims
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Creaks
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Assemble with Care
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Gone Home
Also Played (1)
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Patrick's Parabox
19.2 hours playtime
Added to collection (Steam) (3)
- Plasma (free)
- Sword With Sauce (free)
- Vertical Kingdom (giveaway)
- Islands of Insight (freebie)
Added to collection (GOG) (5)
- STAR WARS Battlefront II (pass)
- Blast Brigade vs. the Evil legion of Dr. Cread (pass)
- Call of Juarez (pass)
- Shadows: Awakening (freebie)
- Forager (pass)
Added to collection (Epic) (8)
- Marvel's Midnight Suns (freebie)
- Weird West: Definitive Edition (pass)
- Redout 2 (freebie)
- MythForce (pass)
- Freshly Frosted (freebie)
- Deceive Inc. (pass)
- Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition (freebie)
- Card Shark (pass)
Added to collection (Other) (6)
- Genesis Noir (pass)
- Zombies Killer Machine (freebie)
- Everdream Valley (pass)
- Projection: First Light (pass)
- LXD Red Honey (free)
- Heaven Dust 2 (pass)
Played Demos (5)
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Sulfur demo
4.9 hours playtime
No Achievements
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Tiny Glade demo
40 minutes playtime
No Achievements
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Doodle Streets: London 1950's demo
20 minutes playtime
No Achievements
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Big Byz Wars demo
20 minutes playtime
No Achievements
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Caravan SandWitch demo
20 minutes playtime
No Achievements
Progress Report #13: May 2024
This is the month I notice that while my backlog overall regresses, my completions percentage has been increasing consistently. Guess BLAEO might be turning me into a game completionist, and I'm not too sure that's a good thing. :-)
Monthly tally - Backlog: 21, Yekhus: 5
Total play time: 35.5h
Completed or Beaten (5)
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Animal Well
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The Deed
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DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
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Martial Law
33 minutes playtime
6 of 6 achievements (not Steam)
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LOVE
1 hour playtime
6 of 18 achievements (not Steam)
Also Played (4)
A friend mentioned that they had never tried either of the Left 4 Dead games, so I recommended it for some play-time together. A great chance to revisit this great classic!.
I'm making slow progress on completing Patrick's Parabox, with bite-sized puzzler fixes here and there.
Also scrounged one session of Arx Fatalis (been trying fruitlessly to give it an earnest go for two months now), but immediately after, Animal Well appeared out of the blue to absorb me. Still intent on deep-diving Arx and finishing it, hopefully next month.
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Patrick's Parabox
18.1 hours playtime
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Arx Fatalis
5 hours playtime
No achievements
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Left 4 Dead 2
93.2 hours playtime
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SNK 40th Anniversary Collection
2.5 hours playtime
No achievements (not on Steam)
Added to collection (Steam) (9)
- Dave the Diver
- The Jackbox Party Pack 2 (SG giveaway)
- Classic Marathon (free)
- Machinika: Museum (freebie)
- Astra Ignota (free)
- Pinball FX (free)
- The WereCleaner (free)
- Quake II (SG giveaway)
- Mediterranea Inferno (IG giveaway)
Added to collection (GOG) (2)
- LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (pass)
- The Lullaby of Life (pass)
Added to collection (Epic) (7)
- Orcs Must Die! 3 (freebie)
- Cat Quest II (freebie)
- Circus Electrique (freebie)
- Electrician Simulator (pass)
- Dragon Age: Inquisition - GOTY Edition (freebie)
- Farming Simulator 22 (freebie)
- Bramble: The Mountain King (pass)
Added to collection (Other) (3)
- Dark City: International Intrigue (pass)
- Nine Witches: Family Disruption (pass)
- Spirits of Mystery: Whisper of the Past (pass)
Beaten Demos (3)
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Cat Quest demo
22 minutes playtime
No Achievements
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Cat Quest II demo
26 minutes playtime
No Achievements
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Astlibra Revision
42 minutes playtime
No Achievements
Progress Report #12: April 2024
Monthly tally - Backlog: 22, Yekhus: 5
Total play time: 37h
The Shrouded Isle took a lot longer than I expected to beat. Although not out of difficulty (2nd try, and the first was a fairly short first contact), but because the "integrated" DLC made the game's campaign almost twice as long. I found the game interesting, with the relatively simple procedural mathematical "puzzle" aligning in interesting ways with the mood, lore and themes. But it doesn't really have any replayability. Once I found the algorithm (or combination of strategies to apply), it just became a very repetitive and mechanical rote thing. Which is why I will leave all those achievements untouched for now, and call it beaten and done.
Completed or Beaten (5)
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Patrick's Parabox
13.9 hours playtime
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
1.8 hours playtime
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The Shrouded Isle
11.2 hours playtime
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Through Abandoned: The Underground City
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Super Blue Boy Planet
Progressed (1)
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Arx Fatalis
3.4 hours playtime
No achievements
Added to collection (Steam) (10)
- Yakuza Kiwami
- Yakuza 0
- Yakuza Kiwami 2
- Yakuza 3 Remastered
- Yakuza 4 Remastered
- Yakuza 5 Remastered
- Content Warning (freebie)
- Streamer Life Simulator (freebie)
- Roboden (free)
- FreeInfantry (free)
Added to collection (Epic) (6)
- Thief (freebie)
- Chivalry 2 (pass)
- The Big Con (freebie)
- Town of Salem 2 (free)
- Industria (freebie)
- LISA: The Definitive Edition (freebie)
Added to collection (Other) (6)
- A Twisted Path to Renown (giveaway)
- Faraway 2: Jungle Escape (pass)
- Drawn: Trail of Shadows (pass)
- Fallout 76 (pass)
- Living Legends: Fallen Sky (pass)
- Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness (pass)
Beaten Demos (1)
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Esoteric Ebb
2.1 hours playtime
No Achievements
| 853 | games |
| 68% | never played |
| 3% | unfinished |
| 15% | beaten |
| 8% | completed |
| 6% | won't play |